Category Archives: The Hot Ticket
Muscle Tension in the fly Cast: Video
You can’t make a good fly cast if you are tense, but muscle tension is necessary, at the right time. Do you squeeze the grip of the fly rod when you cast? At some point, you should be. I’ve seen a lot of casters who use...
Slack Free Presentation: Video
In fly-fishing, slack is always the enemy. That’s never more true than when you are fly fishing on saltwater flats. Slack, however, is an ever present fact of life. No matter how good a caster or angler you are there are conditions beyond your control which...
Fly Fishing with Stealth – 8 Common Mistakes
How often to you think anglers miss opportunities catching trout because of the lack of stealth? The more educated trout populations are in a stream, river or lake you're fly fishing, the more important it is for fly anglers to mimic the way a hunter...
Public Lands Photo Essay
You don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone. Unless you’ve been living in a cave this last year, you know that there is a real and present danger facing our American public lands. A group of short sighted law makers would like to sell of...
Don’t Get Stuck in a Fly Fishing Rut
I see this simple mistake keep anglers from catching fish with startling regularity. I was invited on a float trip recently and witnessed a remarkably common pattern, which may have greatly limited the number of fish brought to the boat. My fishing partner and I were...